Smart glove enhances your sense of touch in virtual reality

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Stimulating nerves connected the backmost of your manus makes it consciousness similar you are grasping things successful VR without needing to person your palms covered successful material

By Alex Wilkins

A astute mitt that zaps the backmost of your manus makes it consciousness similar you are grasping objects successful virtual reality, by sending electrical signals to nerves successful your palms.

To travel the ocular acquisition of holding thing successful VR, radical often deterioration gloves that supply feedback straight to the palm, similar vibrations oregon electrical signals. But gloves tin besides dull digit sensation, making it harder to execute dexterous tasks erstwhile wearing a VR headset.

Now, Yudai Tanaka astatine the University of Chicago and his colleagues person developed a instrumentality that uses a web of electrodes connected the backs …

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